Mayank Shekhar is the first film critic to win the Ramnath Goenka Award, and is the international voting member at the Golden Globe.
His last book, Name Place Animal Thing, on India & pop-culture, was a critically acclaimed, Amazon top title.
His ongoing podcasts, Sit with Hitlist, and The Bombay Film Story, have bagged multiple prizes, besides a wide audience online.
He’s currently Entertainment Editor with Mid-day newspaper in Mumbai, where you can follow his film reviews, weekly column, MS Word, and other writings on cinema & mass-culture.